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Show THK HILL IS COMING DUE. i Have you ever noticed how easy it is to establish a charge or term-payment account in a department store? Hut no matter how easily the credit in obtained, or how small the payments, pay-ments, they come due regularly and if no', pa'd well, the law just takes its co use and the debtor suffers. The people of the United States are just now waking up to the fact that they have been on a gigantic spending spree. Never did they use their public credit so freely. But the day of reckoning is here. The charge accounts are coming due and the payments pay-ments w'll have to be made. Just as the unwary customer is talked in to spending more than he can afford by the super-selling ability abil-ity of the expert clerk, so have an unwary people been talked in to spending more than they can well afford af-ford to pay, by the silver tongues of the politicians. In the latter case, however, the people thought they were going to be given something for nothing that the bill'ons of dollars handed out in the name of "relief" and "recovery" would be taken from somebody else's pocket. But the dream has ended. The tax-gatherer's tax-gatherer's hand is going right down into John Jcnes' pocket to take out the money to pay the charge account, for the "gifts" to Jones. A new tax-raising bill has been thrown into the lap of congress, that will have a tremendous effect on the earnings, the savings and the estates of every citizen. For camouflage and publicity purposes, it is designated as a "share the wealth" or "soak the rich" tax program. The Portland Ore-gonian Ore-gonian says:' "This is but the beginning . . . The government Santa Claus is about to be withdrawn. . . . Gradually he is to become overshadowed by another figure. This one will appear to the taxpayer ere he plays out his part, like a government Shylock. There is no other way. "Good old Uncle Sam is going to make the rich pay and pay. Nothing is said about making other people pay. But that will come later. We are all going to pay pay through the nose and pay till it hurts, in increased federal taxes down through the lower brackets. Our tax bill during the next generation is going to be a thing high, wide and handsome, and at the same time fearsome. It is not going to fall lightly anywhere. It is going to fall heavily on all who have incomes, in-comes, in whatever brackets." Charge accounts of the government (tax bills) become due just as do charge accounts of stores (private bills). There is no difference whatever what-ever in principle but there is a great difference in fact, in that the government, govern-ment, if you fail to pay your tax bill, can use more harsh and ruinous methods me-thods on the individual to force payment pay-ment than can the private store. There is no leniency shown by the tax collector. He collects your taxes, or he takes your property. |